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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1960)
;:,;... s sen 0:1 n!:...;:Kf.-:o socles:: :3 siv. 1 ru" 1 KLAMATH FALLS, Price Ton Cents IS Paer OREGON. TUESDAY, AI'KII, 5. IMII Tclrnlmne Tl' No. fi.17S ill I.. . - H lit- itU' I jlj IT n y'hM--- BEATNIKS overran Altamont Junior High School recently during the school's tradi tional "Hick Day." These youngsters were winners of a costume contest during a beatnik dance. From left, they are, Barbara Holston, Tom Day, Cynthia Crain and Gerry Valentine. Jim Rogers, .Klamath Union High School Krater photographer, got this excellent shot using a Speed Graphic press camera. In The Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: The government's investment. CAPE TOWN'. South Africa In price-supported wheat, cornJiAPi Two South African white cotton, tobacco and other PLUS farm commodities totaled fH.02li.fiu0.O0U (nine billion, 26 mil- lion, 6(10 thousand dollars) online at the big Nvanga Negro set- February 2!l of this year. tlemcnt east of Cape Town. i"hite policemen were struck with Ury Landing district. This was down more than 200 The South African Press Assn.jtlls' ! The Mississippi swelled anew at million from the previous month. ; reported these casualties were an- R , er sald a P0'"'0 P3'1 Canton. Mo., and National chieflv liecause of hcavv sales oflnnumcd hv Mai .1. .1 Rheeder . made UP of an armored car, aniGuardsmen relieved civilians on government owned cotton (t h cldistrict commandant of police at cotton was sold at a loss, to getAthlone, east of Cape Town. rid of it.) .. , . ,.1,'" '' ,u'1" . . ,, . Wheat, long the government s,ihrough Nyanga, beating up Afri- prime surplus bugaboo, was the. cans in an attempt to get them to! most expensive item at $:t.384,-lgo back to work, witnesses re-1 522.428. The government owned ported. 1.085.2(13.401 bushels of it. worth witnesses said the police, $2.84:1.07 1.028. Loans on :)03.0:I7.- hacked bv troons. used cunfire. lfil bushels were valued at $540 550.5(H). The corn investment (sur plus) amounted to $2,744,:i7ti,4!)5. The cotton inventory was 5,816,- oa.es, .n, ...."." "" coiion loans were i t-pui ieu ue cause, ume. ...u ..m program, mc ovui nniuiiL uiht- over virtually all choice cotton. That is la say: The government holds in its. warehouses a little better than! NINE BILLION DOLLARS worth of SURPLUS agricul- tural erops-cnieny wncai, coin. cotton and louocco, none oi which; are grown to any extent in the! State of Jefferson. Here's what it means: As long as this IMMENSE sur plus remains in the hands of'sist police and began gathering. the government subject to. DUMPING at any moment when a change in voting resulted in a change of government policy it will hang like a dark thunder cloud over the agricultural mar kets. forc 8 a.m. and warning against Farm surpluses aren't the onlyforming groups. Helicopters flying surpluses. low over Nyanga broadcast the For example: message. A military cordon. You've heard of the "strategic clamped around Nyanga since materials" stock piles. The the- Monday, was lifted at dawn but ory is that we should in time only a few Africans came out to of peace collect a big store of go lo work, these strategic materials includ- After the police moved in and ing copper, lead, magnesium, lin.lbegan their raids, the cordon was etc. so that, when comes war, we'll have plenty of lliem on hand. It is a quite logical theory, just as logical as that in years of big agricultural production we should stockpile surplus farm crops for use in years when pro duction slips. (Continued on Page 4) TICKETS, TICKETS! Who has the tickets? All members of the Klamath Falls Shrine Club will sell tickets to the annual Shrine Club benefit dance for crippled children. All proceeds of the dance, to be held Saturday, April 30, at the Klamath Falls Auditor ium, will go to the Portland Crippled Children's Hospital where there are now four Klamath County children receiving help. Since 1943 there have been 160 from this Area to receive aid. Two bands will play, Baldy'i and Dennis Wayne of Longview. These four Shrine Club members, left to right, Fred FUdlock, Gradie Sanders, dance chairman, Joe Steele and Van Mollison, helped put tickets in the mail. v m a , i ll j--- . 11 i New Violence Outbreak Rips Strife-Torn Africa By ADRIAN PORTER SUR-lpoliccmcn were injured and a Nc-, gro policeman hacked to death dav in a new outburst of race riot- The outbreak can policc whips and clubs on rebellious Ne groes as they did Monday. Col. V. Reay. acting deputy no- Jice commissioner for Cape Town, confirmed that the police had,lican congressional leaders today opened lire but said only warning ;sh(lls were fjred ovel, thc heads of Africans who gathered. Reay said the police entered Nyanga Township to offer protec tion for Negroes who wanted to go to work and to round up "intimi- dators preventing llicm. Africans in the township claimed police smashed windowsl and doors o nouses and oldered: Negroes into the streets. If lheyiCi- said the nrocram would oner refused, they were dragged ouljate mainly at the stale level, but ana Deaten, nicy said. that federal participation-through . Other reports from Ihe lownshipihe general lax program-is con- said. Africans had decided to rc-ltemolatcd. armed with sticks and rocks. It i appeared that when police saw i Africans banding together, they charged in to scatter them. Just before dawn helicopters dropped leaflets, telling laborers ! in the township to go to' work bc- closed again, and no more Ne groes were allowed out. Scattered outbreaks of violence by Negroes opposing South Afri ca's white supremacy laws also were reported at Johannesburg and Durban after a quiet night. Reports trickled in from oluer areas of Negroes arrested on charges of inciting to riot and! illuming the pass books all noil- whites must carry. For 'he second straight day, however, the center ol trouble to-was l'aPC Town, the legislative capital. Rhcedcr said the two injured " '""' 1 1 . dnn ieve' ial riot trucks moved into the big Nyanga settlement early today to prnleet Negroes who wanted to return to work. Chiefs Okay Health Slate WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi dent Eisenhower and Repub- agreeo on guioeiines .or a voiun- ,ary program of health insurance " ine anniinisiraiion program, still being developed, definitely rules out any increase in the So cial Security lax to finance the plan, the GOP congressional group told a news conference. Sen. Everett M. Dirksen of Il linois, the Senate Republican load- Dirksen said that as he sees it. the federal government would make some contribution toward payment of health insurance premiums. Asked whether Eisenhower had endorsed that principle. Diikscn replied that the President had made no commitments. Dirksen said Eisenhower and the leaders agreed that the ad ministration program: 1. Must be voluntary and nol compulsory. 2. Must not be excessive in its siic. 3. Should be geared to private health insurance system. 4. There must be no increase in the Social Security tax. 5. Must be limited in its bene fits. Dirksen said exploratory work based on these guidelines is being carried on by Secretary of Wel fare Arthur S. Flemming. Flem ming sat in at today's White House conference. MISSOURI SNAPS DIKE CAUSING NEW ALARM By TIIK ASSOCIATED PRESS 1 1 he number would rise In 40.0(10 damage at about 5 million dol A new rise sent the Mississippi before the waters recede, lars. River over the top of a levee and The Missouri, which Army cn- The flooding at SI. Joseph, ill caused fresh alarm at other points Igincers said already has mini- norlhw est Missouri, was the see today, dated more than SOO.OOO aires nl'und worst of the century, second The Missouri River broke land, continued to rKe. Army en- only to the 1!j2 spring overllows. through a dike and spread across pincers, after an aerial insertion j but damage was not heavy. Sub additional acres o! land. of the Missouri basin, rslimalcillsiding o( the North Grand and The Mississippi spilled over a levee in two places south of Clarksville, Mo., about 70 miles north of SI. Louis, and began flowing into 5.000 acres of rich farmland. Slate Route 7!l was closed. Sheriff Charles Dunn reported that 100 persons had fled from that area. A break in a levee near Augus ta, Mo., poured Missouri River waters over 2,000 acres of fertile bottomland. The swollen Mississippi had dropped after bursting levees north of Quincy, 111., early Mon day. But the big river rose again today in that area. A new appeal for flood workers came from Gregory Landing on Hue Missouri side near the south ern border of Iowa. Break througbs were threat ened in two places in the barrier .ai the northern edge of the Greg- levee patrol duty there The river approached the lop ot the levee at Ashburn. Mo. The spring flood: in the Mid- west, hitting hard at Nebraska and Iowa and also causing trouble in Wisconsin, Kansas, South Da kota and Michigan, have forced evacuation of 28.000 persons from their homes, the Red Cross esti mated. A sK)kcsman predicted Rights Debate Continuing ' WASHINGTON (APl-Thc Sen ale pushed alon loday wilh do bate on the civil rights bill, but Democratic Leader Lyndon B Johnrvon of Texas aid lie saw no chance for a final vole before later in Ihe week. Johnson told reporters a good many , amendments were still hanging fire, and that argument and voting on them would rule out any chance for a final vote today. He declined lo predict hen the windup would come. Sen. Everett M. Dirksen of Il linois, the Republican leader, had said earlier he figured ihere was a good chance lo finish with the hill tonight and send it back to the House. Drilling Firm To Get Hearing PORTLAND (AP)-An oil drill ing firm interested in the Summer! Lake area of Lake County will get another hearing before the slate Game Commission April 22. The Humble Oil Co. was turned down earlier on the ground that drilling at Summer Lake would damage the waterfowl manage mcnt area there. Now the oil exploration firm proposes lo set the drill rigs up some distance from the lake and marshes and drill down at an angle. That proposal will be the subject of the new hearing. Move Rejected; Aide Named ELLENVILLE, N. Y. (UPI) - Acting Police Justice Alex Niren berg told village officials a few months ago he could not accept his salary without doing any work. Monday night he was fired. Nirenberg had returned $250 lo the board because he was called on no cases. At Ihe annual meeting, the board rejected a move to reap point Nirenberg and named law yer Lawrence Levine the acting justice. Diplomat Dies LONDON (AP)-Tlie marquess! of Bristol, for many years a Brit ish diplomat in South America, died today. The 89-ycar-old peer had broken his hip in a fall at his London home. of n c,u;nfl p LONDON (AP! Sir Gladwyn MANILA (AP)-PrcSidcnt Car Jebb, Britain's ambassador to los P. Garcia loday ordered an France, retires from a 36-year!invcstigation to find out who rcc- foreign service career this month only to enter another branch of government. Queen Elizabeth II loday conferred a barony on lhc,dead men last week, on rccom 60-ycaro!d, diplomat, making him a member of the House of Lords. Local Woman Perishes In Accident One woman was killed and an other was injured seriously earlv today when a car pitched out of control and rolled over near Itly. Deputy Sheriff John llolloway identified the fatality as Mrs. Ma bel Shuey. 2408 Hnmcdale Road. Klamath Falls. She was dead when Itolloway reached the ac cident scene, two miles east of lily on State Route M. about 3: 30 a.m. Another passenger. Mrs. Evelyn Miller of Bly. was taken by Peace Ambulance to Klamath Valley Hospital. There she was reported in fair condition with head and neck injuries. Holloway said other occupants of the car were Mr. and Mrs. Howard Lanegan of Portland, and two Miller children, ages un known. Mrs. Lanegan apparently was driving the car. State police said the car slipped off the road and ran along the shoulder for approximately 225 feet before it hit a juniXT tree. "II wasn't skidding or anything." an officer said, "but the wheels were clear olf the road." Alter the car hit the tree, it rolled another 200 feet. Weailicr FORECAST Klamath Falls. and vicinity: Considerable high cloudiness through Wednesday. Brief sunny periods. Low tonight 38-4.1; high Wednesday 67-72, High yesterday Low last night Prccip. last 24 hours Since Oct. 1 Same period last year 73 3."i n 7.211 4.3G Northern California Mostly fair tonight and Wednesday hut occasional high cloudiness. Fog on coast night and morning. Ut ile change in temperature. Con tinued low humidity. CRATER LAKE High yesterday fit Low last night 38 8 a.m. today 41 No new snow Snow depth 102 Skiing Crusty Skies were slightly overcast and wind was calm in the park today. Roads arc in good condi tion. Total snowfall so far this season is 303 inches compared with 327 inches for the same pe riod last year. Good Neighbor Can Help You To Be Counted WASHINGTON (UPI) - Mcmol lo working people: A good neighbor" eon help lo get you counted in the low census. Its of working people just can not be at home when the census laker rings the bcil. This is true not only for city "live alones"! but also for suburban families where the wife works and the children are at school. If no one is home during the d: y, one way to make sure you will be included in the current nationwide population count is to leave your advance report form with a neighbor. The neighbor can give it lo the census taker lor you. If Ihe census laker doesn't gel vour lorm from someone else and finds no one at home, he probably will either: Leave a note saying when he will be back, so you or another member of your household can be there. Ask you to phone or write telling him when some one will be home. rroDc acneauiea i fi t ommended that he pardon lour prisoners who had already died in Jail. The President pardoned the mendation of the Bureau of. Par- Idons. Chariton rivers was expected to bring a slight drop in the Mis souri at Boonville, in mid-Missouri. A stage of 27. 1 feet was reort ed at Hermann. Mo , a small community west of St. Umis. A crest of 2!) leet was expected Thursday night, with danger ol Hooding some 2!l.000 acres ol levee protected land. At St. Charles, a town of about 14.300 near St. Louis, the stage was :I0 feet and another 2's leet is ex))ected by Friday with over flows threatening to cover 10.000 acres of (arm land. The Missouri and Mississippi converge just above St. Louis but no serious damage was expected. Flood threats in most other Mid west states apearcd over but in the East, the swollen Hudson River in New York spilled over its banks into streets and homes iiorel, the wayward wife in in the upper valley area. More"Roiim at the Top," ruled as king than 30 families were evacuated jmd qu(,c 0r he niovies today hum their homes at Waleriord. Mjnm.rs fnr (he adu,. N.., as overflows from the Mo hawk and Hudson rivers covered a"" iUtll'5'i 1!'',!l a six-block area. The stars shared the spotlight The flooding Hudson also forced families to evacuate their homes in Troy, Pleasantdalc and King ston. N Y'. An 18-block area was under a fool of water in Troy. The Susquehanna River began lo recede alter rampaging through O n c o n t a and several smaller towns, forcing more than 400 fam ilies from their homes. Medal Of PlOnOrl1'1 Klmlslu-'hcVs plan for total dis . B larmamenl, bringing the 10-nation Petition UKdVea WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate Finance Committee Mon day approved a House-passed bill to. grant $100 a month pensions to Medal of Honor recipients. The, bill limits the pensions lo those 02 years of age or over and lo honorably discharged servicemen. and provides that any nonserv-ice-connecled veterans' pension should be deducted from Ihe $100. Medal of Honor holders now re ceive a $10 monthly pension start ing at age 08. There were 314 Medal of Honor, winners living last year. 3 Hospitalized After Accident WEED Three Sacramento men arc in Mount Shasta Community Hospital following a one-car ac cident on Highway !)7 north of here al 1:20 Monday morning. The men were southbound micn!CiiflAira Flff Al the driver losl control on an "S" curve south of Cougar Pass and the car went over an embank ment. Two steamer trunks and a largci box of rocks in the rear of Ihe station wagon were thrown for- ward by Hie impact and the men, all apparently riding in the fronl seal, were pinned belwccn the scat and the dash. Driver of the car, Frank E. Munscll, 50, was reported to have major injuries. Also reported wilh major injuries was James F. Boggs, 57. James W. Miller, 47, received minor injuries. The injured men were taken lo the Mount Shasta Hospital by Weed ambulance. California High way Patrol officers arc investi gating. Skunk Snafus City Election DETROIT (AP) The election wasn't fixed but it sure smellcd Voters in suburban Hamtramck went lo Copernicus Junior High School Monday to ballot on mayor and other cily officials in a municipal election. Unknown to (he voters or lo election and school officials a skunk lurked in the school's heat ing and utility room right next lo an opening in the ventilating system. Then Ihe skunk was spotted and police called. An offi cer shot and killed the animal The 900 students in the school were sent home. The election workers and voters had lo contend wilh the smell. Nun Sentenced VIENNA (AP) A Communisl court in Czechoslovakia has sen tenced a Roman Catholic nun to 2'i years in prison (or trying to spread religious influence among schoolgirls. CASH AWARDS will go to these three Malin eighth grade students who wrote win. ning essays in the recent Americanism essay contest sponsored by Malin American Legion Auxiliary. Left to right are Jill Johnson, second place winner; Dawn Hale, first place, and. Lois Owens, third. Their topic was "Why I Love My Country." 'Ben Hur' Sweeps Oscar;1 Hesfon, Signoret Win lly VERNON SCOTT HOLLYWOOD (I'PD Charl ton Ilestoii. rugged star of "Ben llur." and France's Simonc Sig- th "Hen-Hur" at Monday night's 32iid annual Academy Soviet Plan Turned Down CICNKVA .P The West lo- il-iv i'oiftirl s'ltvinl IM-nmipi' NiUi- conference, to u deadlock. The So- viet Union previously turned down tile West s proposal lor gradual disarmament, U.S. Ambassador Frederick M Eaton, declared -Uie. Soviet plan was so faulty il would threaten the world with anarchy. Eaton also accused Ihe Soviel Union of misrepresenting Hie mo tives of the U.S. government in he conference. The American delegate labeled is untrue accusations made Mon day by Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin. The So viet delegate claimed Ihe United Slates was trying lo twist the ne gotiations (o secure a military advantage. Ealon and French disarmament expert Jules Modi told the Com munist bloc countries that the So viel plan lo disarm the world within four years is unacceptable in any form. fftmmi0 YUh VOmiTlie I OUTflS HAVANA (AP)-Pro-Communisl youths from around the world thunderously endorsed Fidel Cas tro's revolution early loday at a y marked by a near-hysteri- cal display of auli-Amcricanism. Nearly 1,000 delegates, 800 ol them from Cuba, jammed a Ha vana theater for the start of the week-long meeting of the Cuban Congress ot Socialist Youth. For eign delegates came from Asia Europe, Africa and other Latin American countries. WILLING WORKERS, 13 students of the Wesley Foundation of the Methodist Church, Eugene, and the University of Oregon, arrived in Malin and spent their spring vaca tion working on the Migrant Ministry Building at the Malin Potato Harvest Camp. The group, accompanied by their college pastor, the Rev. Robert Kingsbury, included two students from Hong Kong, one from Korea and one from Honolulu. Others wr from Oregon towns. Burton Hoyle, Tulelalce, supervised the work. A similar group was previously present in Malin to help put up the building used for many purposes by volunteer members of the Klamath Council of Churches to aid families during th harvest season. Photo byfiurtoi HoyU Awards program when Ihe 15- million-dollar spectacle won the best picture Oscar and 10 other awards, more than any film in. Negroes, one ot them the brolhcr history. of prizelighler Eddie .Machen, Shellcv Winters, playing ai"oie J"'1 011 (ISIW mur" dowdv housewife in "The Uiarvj'lcr charges today, awaiting ,i of Anne Frank." won the besli'!,'aral ml'-v investigation into tha supporting actress honor, and bcatup death of a white man. English slar Hugh (iriflilh v. on I Holll'c ""I'-snued to probe nHo best supporting actor for his rulc;0,her S;iUirt!ay night beatings-all in "Hen-Hur." (isolated affairs thai came as a Scores of stars crowded into tile Pantages Theater on Hollywood Blvd. where their enthusiasm was somewhat dimmed by the month- long strike of the Screen Actors Guild againsl '.he major movie studios. Jokes AIhmiI Strike i Master of ceremonies Bob Hope okcu anoui tnc sii ikc on mc na tionally televised show saying, "Welcome lo Hollywood's most glamorous strike meeting. Later m the snow Hope was surprised himself when he was presented with Ihe special Jean Hersholl Award for humanitarian- ism. The winners were bolh excited and grateful in their acceptance speeches Miss Si'inorel, a H9-year-old blonde, told the 2100 celebrities and fans in lite theater, "I can't say anything. All, 1 thank you. You can't imagine what it is for me, being French." , Before leaving his scat Hcston hugged and kissed his wife. Then he marched stiffly lo Ihe stage to -av, "When you stand here you want lo thank everybody you ever knew in this business. Ten years igo next month I made my first picture. Since then I worked with many of you and all of you did something (o help me get here." Breaks Award Record Jubilant William Wylcr, winner of two previous directing Oscars, said. "c broke the record, re ferring to "Ben-IIur's" 11 awards in the 12 categories for which it was nominated. The Mli-M religious epic, lilmed on location in Rome, sur passed the previous record holder. Gigi, which collected nine awards last year. M-G-.M lopped the studio totals with II, all for "Bcn-Hur." Next was 20th Century-Fox with three Miss Winters broke into tears backstage, crying, "I got it, at last, at last. I would like to thank the memory of that wonderful lit lie girl (Anne Frank) who wrote with such depth and perception about human beings." Two Youths Being nc:d For Murder PORTLAND i.P) Two young :ar pulled up alongside pcdesin ins on dark streets to detcrmino whether the assailants were tha iamc. They thought they were. Paul Arnold Machen and Charles Ivan Patterson Jr., both 21, faced the murder charge. Two others. enjamin Juseph Irwin Jr., 21, and Elivy Ron Grandberry, 20, verc held as material witnesses. The dead man was Edward J. St. Gcornc, 41, an unemployed farm worker. He was found dying on a street early Sunday, his skull fractured. Police Lt. William Hoff said yesterday one of the men told him Ihey got lo brooding about troubles of their rucc in Africa and in tho South, had a- few drinks, then .stal led out "lo do something about il." Todav Hoff said it stilt looked the satre. He called it particularly rcgretlablc since there has been little racial trouble here. Heavyweight fighter Eddie Ma chen said his young brother 'doesn't have any chip on his shoulder. I don't think he's tha kind of a guy who would do a thing like Ibis." Chessman Loses Latest Appeal SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-Caryl Chessman's latest move lo es cape execution May 2 was reject ed today by three judges. The Slate District Court of Ap. peals judges rejected the convict- author's habeas corpus without comment. Talks Canceled ' GENEVA (AP The session of '.he three-nation nuclear test ban ' talks was canceled loday at U.S. and British request. The two west ern delegates told Russia's Sem- yon K. Tsarapkm they needed more time to prepare replies to a series of questions Tsarapkin had asked about the Camp. David pro posals for a partial test ban linked to a moratorium on small under ground explosions. t
